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The Shamokin Diaries 1745-1755
The Moravian Mission to the Iroquois
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Contextual materials
Moravians and Native Americans at the Confluence
Native Americans in Shamokin c.1748 by David Minderhout, Ph.D.
Moravian Artisans and their Wives in the Colonial Pennsylvanian Backcountry Katherine Faull, Bucknell University
Texts
The German Text
The Translated English Text
Brother Martin Mack’s Diary: September 13, 1745–November 10, 1745
Brother Hagen’s Diary, May 26, 1747- June 27, 1747
Brother Martin Mack’s Diary, September 29, 1747–December 31, 1747
Brother Joseph Powell’s Diary, January 4, 1748 — April 18, 1748
Brother Martin Mack’s Short Report of the Heidenpaß in Shamokin, April 18, 1748–June 19, 1748
Cammerhof’s Narrative of a Journey to Shamokin, in the winter of 1748 (published source)
Brother David Zeisberger’s Account of the Shamokin Mission, November 30, 1748-January 31, 1749
Brother Rauch’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, February 1, 1749-April 2, 1749
Brother Zeisberger’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, March 4, 1749-July 26, 1749
Brother Zeisberger’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, January 8,1750-March 05, 1750
Brother Grube’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, April 14, 1753-June 04, 1753
Brother Grube’s Diary of his trip to Quenischachachque, June 4, 1753-June 10,1753
Grube, Bernard A. “A Missionary’s Tour to Shamokin and the West Branch of the Susquehanna, 1753.” (Published 1915)
Brother Kliest’s Diary of the Shamokin mission, January 11, 1754-July 02, 1754
Brothers Kliest and Loesch’s Diary, December 19, 1754-December 25, 1754
Brother Rösler’s Diary–April 1, 1755-September 30, 1755
Brother Rösler’s account of his and Brother Philip Wesa’s and Marcus Kiefer’s final stay in Shamokin and their merciful preservation in the war of the savages against Pennsylvania. In the year 1755.
Mack Diary-English Original
18th-Century Moravian Mapping
Index of Persons
Index of Places
Chronicle
Gallery
Portfolio
Cammerhof’s Narrative of a Journey to Shamokin, in the winter of 1748 (published source)
